Quote by Virginia Woolf
As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it til

As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. – Virginia Woolf

Other quotes by Virginia Woolf

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say. – Virginia Woolf

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Courage
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This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. – Virginia Woolf

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War
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title. – Virginia Woolf

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Self
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Other Quotes from
Writing
category

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. – Vladimir Nabakov

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Writing

Our passions shape our books; repose writes them in the intervals. – Proust, The Past Recaptured, 1927

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Writing

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. – E.L. Doctorow

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Writing

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman. – Van Wyck Brooks

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Writing

Random Quotes

My new life goes beyond my dreams because my dream was Formula One and I achieved it. Im a driver, I feel like a driver. I have won this race because I am alive. – Maria de Villota

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Dreams

In the marvellous month of May
when all the buds were bursting,
then in my heart did
love arise.

In the marvellous month of May
when all the birds were singing,
then did I reveal to her
my yearning and longing. – Heinrich Heine

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Seasons

I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out on what the real purpose is. Its not about a production number, its about a meaningful moment between two people thats witnessed by people that they actually really know and care about. – Jane Seymour

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wedding

I completely trust Gloria Vanderbilt. I have always found her very honest. – Michael Lindsay-Hogg

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Trust